"It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion."

-- Zachary Lazar

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“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.”
“A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,”
“Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.”

Source : A Very Honorable Guy" (1929)
“Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.”
“So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.”

Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.264, Walter de Gruyter
“I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.”

Source : "Exclusive Q&A with Carney's Reeve Carney". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 19, 2011.
“Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)”
“It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.”

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